https://whitebeard.blog/tags/elm/Recent content in Elm on Whitebeard's RealmHugo -- 0.161.1en-gbTue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://whitebeard.blog/posts/make-your-own-interactive-fiction-client-in-elm/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://whitebeard.blog/posts/make-your-own-interactive-fiction-client-in-elm/In which the author extracts a library from his interactive fiction app, and walks the curious reader through the making of their own Z-machine player in around 100 lines of Elm.https://whitebeard.blog/posts/introducing-planedrift/Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://whitebeard.blog/posts/introducing-planedrift/In which the author at last unveils a quiet corner of the web for playing classic Infocom adventures, and reflects on the peculiar inhumanity of an AI that cannot quite abide pure play.https://whitebeard.blog/posts/ask-the-vm-where-is-the-player/Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://whitebeard.blog/posts/ask-the-vm-where-is-the-player/In which the author hunts through virtual memory for a player whose whereabouts the machine no longer remembers, and settles on a layered heuristic that is almost certainly good enough.https://whitebeard.blog/posts/building-a-z-machine-in-elm/Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://whitebeard.blog/posts/building-a-z-machine-in-elm/In which a 1980s virtual machine for text adventures is reimplemented in a pure functional language, against all better judgement, and somehow emerges working.https://whitebeard.blog/posts/playing-interactive-fiction-with-an-ai-companion/Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://whitebeard.blog/posts/playing-interactive-fiction-with-an-ai-companion/In which an old text adventure is rediscovered with the help of an enthusiastic, slang-slinging AI companion, and a z-machine yak awaits its shave.https://whitebeard.blog/posts/building-a-better-crossword-page/Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://whitebeard.blog/posts/building-a-better-crossword-page/In which the daily cryptic crossword becomes a source of frustration, and a solution is fashioned from an old Elm project dusted off.